ЁЯФ╢ Yaj├│a is also supposed to be performed during the programme of katha-kirtan (the recital of a story along with devotional songs), religious celebrations and the occasions of special festivals. For example, Holi, which is celebrated these days as a colour festival was originally a festival of yaj├│a to celebrate the harvesting of new crop every year. A handful of new grains is supposed to be sacrificed in the “holi- yaj├│a” as a mark of expressing gratitude to God’s grace. The spirit of purifying the grain before using it in food preparation is also associated with this yaj├│a.
ЁЯФ╖ Yaj├│a is also performed along with religious functions like Satya Narayan Katha, Bhagvat Katha, Ramayan Parayan, etc. Specific yaj├│as are also invariably linked with the Vedic as well as the tantrika sadhana anusthanas. Gayatri Sadhana is regarded incomplete without yaj├│a. The number of ahutis offered in the havans or yaj├│as organized to mark the end of Gayatri anusthana or mahapurashcharanas should at least equal the tenth or hundredth fraction of the number of japas completed everyday in these sadhanas. Worshiping different manifestations of God is also supposed to be carried out with specific kinds of yaj├│a, as described in the holy scriptures.
ЁЯФ╢ The prominence of tirthas, the places of pilgrimage, is also associated with yaj├│a since the Vedic Age. The places where grand yaj├│as were organized and conducted by the rishis became tirthas and are still revered as holy destinations of pilgrimage in India.
ЁЯУЦ From Akhand Jyoti Jan 2001
ЁЯФ╖ Yaj├│a is also performed along with religious functions like Satya Narayan Katha, Bhagvat Katha, Ramayan Parayan, etc. Specific yaj├│as are also invariably linked with the Vedic as well as the tantrika sadhana anusthanas. Gayatri Sadhana is regarded incomplete without yaj├│a. The number of ahutis offered in the havans or yaj├│as organized to mark the end of Gayatri anusthana or mahapurashcharanas should at least equal the tenth or hundredth fraction of the number of japas completed everyday in these sadhanas. Worshiping different manifestations of God is also supposed to be carried out with specific kinds of yaj├│a, as described in the holy scriptures.
ЁЯФ╢ The prominence of tirthas, the places of pilgrimage, is also associated with yaj├│a since the Vedic Age. The places where grand yaj├│as were organized and conducted by the rishis became tirthas and are still revered as holy destinations of pilgrimage in India.
ЁЯУЦ From Akhand Jyoti Jan 2001
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